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Monday Night Football: Would Dave Pasch, Kurt Warner be part of perfect booth for ESPN?

We know that ESPN will have a new announcing team for Monday Night Football in 2020.

We don't know who that team will be.

But one NFL writer has a suggestion that includes two people very familiar to Arizona Cardinals fans.

The Athletic's Richard Deitsch, who first reported that Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland would not return to the broadcast booth for Monday Night Football for ESPN in 2020, suggested what he would do to fill the role, if he were ESPN.

ESPN is going to have a new Monday Night Football booth. Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland will not return, via sources. The successors will be internal. No decision has been made yet. Both Tessitore and McFarland will remain in prominent roles at ESPN.

He wrote that current Cardinals radio play-by-play man Dave Pasch, former Cardinals player and current Westwood One Radio Monday Night Football analyst Kurt Warner and ESPN analyst Louis Riddick would be a great option for the network in the upcoming season.

Deitsch wrote: "If I were ESPN management, my Monday Night Football booth would be Dave Pasch, Kurt Warner and (Louis) Riddick. Pasch already works for ESPN. He has been a terrific play-caller in everything he does, be it college football, college basketball, the NBA or anything else. ... Warner has been a terrific game analyst over the past two seasons working with Kevin Harlan on Westwood One’s Monday Night Football and Super Bowl broadcasts. ... Riddick sees the game from the perspective of a personnel director. He also played safety in the NFL for seven years so he’s a unique hybrid. He’s no-nonsense."

It's not known if Warner and Pasch are even candidates for the Monday Night Football gig.

Some reports suggest that ESPN will likely hire internal candidates for the job, which would then possibly make Pasch and Riddick candidates, but exclude Warner.

Steve Levy, Dan Orlovsky, Pat McAfee, Kirk Herbstreit and Brian Greise are among others who have been mentioned as possible candidates for jobs on Monday Night Football.

Could Kurt Warner be on the Monday Night Football broadcast team for ESPN?(Photo: Rob Schumacher/The Republic)

For the Win listed Warner as the top possible candidate to replace McFarland as the game's analyst.

Charles Curtis wrote: "The experience is there — he’s with Kevin Harlan on the radio for Monday Night Football — he’s solid all around in all the areas you’d want him to be solid in for the national broadcast. If you’re looking to hire someone who won’t have his name trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons every Monday night, he’s your guy."

Shlomo Sprung wrote: "The Hall of Fame quarterback already works Monday Night Football games, calling the action on Westwood One radio with Kevin Harlan. Hiring either would instantly give ESPN its best talent on the program is years. He’s also an analyst on NFL Network, so he could help ESPN as a talking head on analysis shows as well. The former St. Louis Rams great has been mentioned as someone ESPN has shown interest in, but is not an internal candidate as shown above. But if they’re serious about making a big upgrade in the booth, Warner should be the top candidate."

Would an announcing team of Dave Pasch, Kurt Warner and Louis Riddick be a winner for ESPN?